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HOSKYNS, JOHN, third son of John Hoskyns, Monnington-on-Wye, Llanwarne, Herefs., and Margery, dau. of Thomas Jones, Llanwarne, Herefs.; b. 1566; at school under Grant one year (Aubrey, Brief Lives, i, 417); went to Winchester Coll., adm. scholar 1579, founder’s kin; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1584/5, scholar 22 Jul 1584, Fellow 22 Jun 1586; BA 1588; MA 26 Feb 1591/2, when he served as “terrae filius” with such bitterness that he was forced to resign his fellowship and retired to Somerset, where he supported himself by teaching; adm. Middle Temple 13 Mar 1592/3, called to bar 22 May 1600, Bencher 1620; MP Hereford Mar 1603/4 – Feb 1610/1, 1614, and Feb 1627/8 – Mar 1628/9; committed to Tower of London for making reflections on James I’s Scottish favourites 7 Jul 1614, but released after a year’s imprisonment; Second Justice of Carmarthen from 3 Jul 1621; Serjeant-at-Law 26 Jun 1623; poet and wit; author of verses, epigrams and epitaphs; said to have revised Raleigh’s History of the World and the poems of Ben Jonson (qv); m. 1 Aug 1601 Benedicta, widow of Francis Bourne, Sutton St. Cleve, Somerset, and dau. of Robert Moyle, Buckwell, Kent; d. 27 Aug 1638. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.